[Fourlanders] Fwd: [Moon-Net] Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc8

[Bill Pence]

The fourlanders are planning to install for January contest.

Let's try to pass stations!

KI4US
Bill


On Mon, Jan 6, 2025, 2:04 PM John Kludt <johnnykludt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> You all may have already seen this on Moon-Net but it appears to resolve
> what over time was a major objection FT8 etc. and that was the inability to
> "pass."   Don't know if it can get installed prior to the Jan contest but
> it is worth try.
>
> Johnny
>
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> From: Joe via groups.io <joe=princeton.edu at groups.io>
> Date: Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
> Subject: [Moon-Net] Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc8
> To: <Moon-Net at groups.io>
>
>
> Dear WSJT-X Users,
>
> We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc8 is
> ready for download and use by beta testers. This revision introduces a
> new Message System primarily intended for contests. Otherwise, RC8 is
> mostly a bug-fix release of the well-functioning RC7.
>
> The WSJT-X Message System can be used to invite your QSO partner to QSY
> to another frequency or mode (e.g. during contests), or to send some
> general short messages. It consists of the Message Creator and the QSY
> Monitor. Received messages are displayed as popups. To understand how to
> use the Message System, be sure to read Section 8 of the updated WSJT-X
> User Guide for RC8.
>
> Additional details on program changes since RC7 can be found in the
> Release Notes:
> https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc8.txt
>
> Release Candidates are intended for beta testers. If you download and
> use WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc8, please provide relevant feedback on the new
> features and anything that does not seem to work properly for you. If
> your report involves something related to received signals, be sure to
> provide one or more saved *.wav files that illustrate the perceived
> problem. As a general matter, you should use the option "Save all" when
> testing.
>
> Direct links to installation packages for Windows, Linux, and macOS can
> be found on the WSJT-X page https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html
> Scroll down to the heading "Candidate release: WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc8".
>
> For those who like to compile from source, a source-code tarball is
> available on the WSJT-X page.
>
> WSJT-X is licensed under the terms of Version 3 of the GNU General
> Public License (GPL). Development of this software is a cooperative
> project to which many amateur radio operators have contributed. If you
> use our code, please have the courtesy to let us know about it. If you
> find bugs or make improvements to the code, please report them to us in
> a timely fashion.
>
> The authors and Copyright holders of WSJT-X request that derivative
> works should not publish programs based on features in WSJT-X before
> those features are made available in a General Availability (GA) release
> of WSJT-X. Currently this caution applies to all SuperFox and SuperHound
> features. We will cease making public Release Candidates if this request
> is ignored.
>
> Feedback should be sent to this email list or one of the of the others
> mentioned here in the User Guide:
> https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc8.html#SUPPORT
>
> We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc8, and that you will help us
> to create a new General Availability (GA) release soon.
>
>        -- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Steve, K9AN; Nico, IV3NWV; Uwe, DG2YCB;
>                Brian, N9ADG; John, G4KLA; and Charlie, DL3WDG.
>
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